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Rotary Club

ON 7 February, the members of the Rotary Club of Tywyn invited Joanne Houseman to give a presentation entitled ‘Greener Tywyn’.

Greener Tywyn was launched in January 2018 by a dedicated group of local volunteers to address some of the problems of climate change, resource depletion and economic crisis.

The initiative will help the local community to be more environmentally sustainable through positive local action such as organic growing, renewable energy, recycling, and cutting carbon emissions.

The group plans to organise events and workshops to provide information and positive encouragement to make the change to a greener lifestyle. Joanna gave an excellent and inspiring presentation on the group’s achievements and planned future events backed up by an impressive slide show of their accomplishments. Among other projects, Greener Tywyn has been working with the local community to encourage people to make ‘one green change’ to their lifestyles that would make a difference to the environment.

They have also launched a petition to be presented to Tywyn Council with an appeal that the council declare a ‘Climate Emergency’ and support a community- led consultation, enabled by Greener Tywyn Gwyrdd to develop an action plan to avoid a catastrophic climate breakdown. On behalf of The Rotary Club of Tywyn, president Nancy Clark expressed her thanks to Joanna for her presentation and to Greener Tywyn for helping to sort the large quantity of rubbish produced after last year’s Race the Train organised by the Rotary Club.

As is the custom with all our speakers, Nancy presented Joanna with a cheque for £100 for the benefit of Greener Tywyn (pictured).

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